Indicators for global monitoring of child rights : international meeting sponsored by UNICEF 9-12, February 1998, Geneva, Switzerland : summary report background paper
- New York Division of evaluation, policy and planning UNICEF 1998
- 122p.
1. Working group sessions - General measures of implementations - Civil rights and freedoms - Family environment and alternative care - Basic health snd welfare
2. Comments and follow up
3. Background papers: General principles guiding the rights of the child Background note: Global monitoring of child rights Indicatiors for general measures of implementation Indicators for civil rights and freedoms of children Developing global indicators to monitor the Convention on the Rights of the Child: family environment and out-of-home care - Judith Harwin with Donald Forrester Indicators and methods for global monitoring of the special protection rights of children - Clarence Shubert
4. Agenda
5. Participants and invited speakers
This is summary report of the meeting which brought together experts in human rights as well as measurement experts who have specialized in monitoring the situation of children. The goals were to review the experience so far in monitoring of child rights, propose a first set of core indicators, establish the rationale for selecting these indicators and finally develop a plan for future activities, including action address remaining gaps.